The Hungry Poem by Randy McClave

In times of stress and worries and memories of a war
Shouldn't we all be obligated to feed the needy and the poor,
Let no person starve or go hungry that I solemnly do declare
We all are brothers and sisters and children of GOD, that I swear.

Should any state or government allow any person to starve
Upon their headstone when they die that iniquity of theirs I will carve,
In the time of peace and righteousness no person should ever go hungry
We all are people! We dream, we pray, we are souls not a country.

If we allow anyone to become invisible or die of starvation
How could we say that we care, and that we are a Christian nation,
Strangers we all are, towards life and others we should all be passionate
No one should ever starve, too each other we must be more compassionate.

The wealthy and the greedy they will gorge themselves at their feast
Instead of feeding or caring for the poor, they feed their scraps to their beast,
A homeless person stands on the street corner begging only for food
But, he is not allowed to be fed, or he will go to jail and his benefactor sued.

I say shame on us one and all when we pass a person with an empty belly
Especially when we leave empty-handed, from a restaurant or a deli,
GOD watches us from heaven above and he especially judges that one deed
When the soul and stomach are empty, prayer and food is what we need.

If a law says a person must starve, but pigeons can be fed
I would not give crumbs to a bird, I would instead give the hungry my bread,
And if I must be arrested and then go to jail for committing that one crime
I would go to jail not hungry, and I would not give that fattened court a single dime.

Randy L. McClave